Naked Parenting is parenting stripped down to the bare basics focusing on seven keys to raising kids who are self-sufficient, confident, respectful, and resilient. Nudity not required. Confidence and genuine self love, without believing the world owes you anything, is the cornerstone of happy adulthood. And isn’t that our main job as parents - to raise happy, fulfilled adults?
Naked Parenting approaches parenting in an honest, direct and realistic way. Guiding children with love, nurturing their strengths and self-image, and instilling personal responsibility are at the heart of Naked Parenting. There are thousands of topics that fall under the parenting umbrella, and so many I haven’t jumped into the book, but Naked Parenting addresses key concepts to help you raise confident, joyful, and well-adjusted kids, and to enjoy doing it.
The book discusses love, honesty, communication, responsibility, discipline, mistakes and gratitude. You’ll see how these ideas overlap, interrelate and reinforce one another. Learning these principles will help you to apply them across the myriad of parenting scenarios.
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As a parent since 1998, a childbirth educator since 2002, and a doula since 2007, I have worked with hundreds of families as they transition to parenthood, or added another child to their family, and have witnessed a broad spectrum of parenting styles. As a mother of three children, one elementary-aged child and two teenagers, I have seen an even greater range of parenting techniques.
Every parent has their own style and the principles of Naked Parenting can fit into, and work in conjunction with, many ways of parenting. Use the ideas here with your own family rules, values and culture.
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In parenthood, as in so much else in life, we need a box full of tools to choose from, tools for different situations, different kids, different ages, and even different days of the week. Sometimes a technique that works Monday doesn’t work Wednesday, but try it again next week or next month, and you may find success with it.
The overall principles of Naked Parenting boil down to openness and honesty rooted in love and I believe all parents can benefit from the ideas in the book.
Be prepared to commit, to make mistakes and to feel some resistance. You’ll see the returns in greater family harmony, and in happier, more confident children.
Mistakes are part of this gig. Parenting is one big experiment, but as you’ll see in Naked Mistakes, what matters is how we handle them. We all mess up. There is so much that is unpredictable in parenting that it’s impossible to know what to do in every situation, but using the principles of Naked Parenting will help guide you as you apply them to the infinite number of scenarios you face as parents.
Naked Parenting takes energy; boundless, creative, energy. Many of the suggestions in this book will take time, will ask you to pause and reflect, will take some patience or some additional steps, but it’s worth it. Your kids are worth it, your family is worth it and you are worth it. You will be rewarded many times over by doing the work.
So, let’s get naked!
About the author:
Leah DeCesare’s main gig is mother of three and she writes between car pools and laundry. She is the author of Naked Parenting: 7 Keys to Raising Kids with Confidence and blogs at Mother's Circle.net.
